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teresting system of reviews, and the
written exercises interspersed.-Educa'
tionaZ Notes.
Example of Children to Parents.

Example of Children to Parents.
Some parents are stern disciplinariaas
and believe too freely in the maxim,
"spare the rod and spoil the child"
Their children are like 80 many culprits
who are punished so many times day
or week to keep them in order. Many a
man who denounces the tyranny of
kings at the street corners is, himself,
the prince of tyrants at home, and
wherever he has authority. His children
hate him and are only happy when he is
out of the house. His conduct towards
them is, of course, the cause of their
hatred. A child is by nature afectionate
and will hang around his fathers neck
and caress him as he returns home, if
he will encourage it. But when father
only meets his children with an angry
face, finds fault with something they
have done, and sends them off with a
box behind the ear and kick, they soon
learn to fear and hate him. Before en-
gaging in their little pastimes one will
say, "Let's wait till pa goes out" When
it is about time for him to return the
children usually go out and his appear
ance in the vicinity is sure to end their
fun. New, what have the children been
doing? They have seen their papa in
regimentals, perhaps, parading along the
streets, and the little things have been
playing ssogers )" or they may have
been squirting water out Of tub to put
out an imaginary fire, and for the time
being are fremer on small scale. One
little urchin takes the house broom to
play "hoss" with, another gets his pas
old hat and becomes grandpa for the
occasion, and soop.
When father is at leisure he says some.
thing like this: "What have you little
rascals been doing to.day?" The chill.
dren, perhaps, know if they tell the truth,
that scolding or slap will follow, and a
lie is the only weapons trembling child
has against an angry father. A fright
enetl child will tell a lie to save itself
from violence, and frightened parent
will sometimes do the same thing.
Many fathers punish their children for
cursing and rising profaue language.
This.is right enough when the father
does not set the example, but he has no
just right to curse his boy for half hour
after breakfast and fog him at night be.
cause some one says he curses. OF the
two, the father should be doubly logged
first, for cursing, and second for setting
a bad example.
Some mothers have also much TO
answer for in this particular. They
teach their children to have a disregard
for truth by sending them to neighbors
with false excuses, and if mother does
not wish to make her appearance to .vis-
itors the children, with the servants, are
instructed to inform all callers that
"mother is not at home" Should the
visitor happen to be inquisitive and asks
where mother has, gone to, the child
must fabricate one or more lies to cover.
up the first. Should that child, on an
other occasion, tell a lie to its mother, it
will be chastised OF, rebuked with indigs
nation. A child at Sunday School is
taught to honor its father and mother,
but how can rious child honor a father
who insults the God it loves, or mother
who breaks the sacred laws it, has been
taught to obeya Either the child must
become like the parents or pity them,
and we cannot honor those we pity.
Parents are responsible for bringing
their children into the world, and upon
their shoulders rest the great RESPONSE
bility Of teaching them by precept and
example to love truth, follow virtue and
hate vice. Parents should, at least, oc-
casionally join with their children in
prayers, and when gathered around the
table SEQ that they invoke blessing
before reaching for the nearest dish.
The swine never look up to see who
throws down the acorns, but rational
beings should not follow the example of
these animals.
A father should not feel himself too
big man to associate with his children
and make companions of them. He
should remember that they belong to just
as good family as he does and can
boast of quite as proud an ancestry.
This kind of association also looks more
civilized than to have the children run.
ming from him, or sinking in corner
whenever he comes in the house.
Little children are like those who in.
habit the Kingdom of Heaven, and woe
be unto the parents who, by precept CT
example, rob them of that childhood in.
nocence which obtained for them the
caresses of the God. Man of Calvary du.
ring his sorrowful mission upon earth.
Wind As Seed Carrier.
Atthe recent meeting Of the scientists
at Cambridge, Alfred Russell Wallace